Office 2013 In Depth

Creating Email Rules

You can automate management of your Mail folder using Outlook rules. A rule can delete, flag, or move messages. For example, a rule can be used to automatically move messages in the Inbox from a particular sender to a particular mail-related folder. This can help you keep organized, particularly if you need to place mail from a particular sender in a folder other than the Inbox. Although rules can’t necessarily be considered a security feature, they do give you control over the disposition of the email messages that you receive.

Outlook rules are basically a set of conditions. When the conditions of the rule are met by an email message, the rule acts on the message. Rules can take all sorts of things into account, such as ...